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Asri, > To: address@hidden > From: "A.Sulaiman" <address@hidden> > Organization: Australian Government? > Keywords: 199512060413.AA25138 In the above message you wrote: > In reading a large (18MB) netCDF file (but very simple in structure), > I experienced very large difference in ncvgt response time > when compiling with v2.4 library compared to v2.3. > I am using Fortran90 on a Cray J90. It was tested on both the > 1st & 2nd beta version of v2.4 and there is no difference. > > Are you already aware of this problem?. I'll wait for your reply > before sending further information you may request. This could be due to a bug in UNICOS's uname(1) utility, which is used by the configure script. Would you please do the following: 1. Become the user who built the netCDF package; 2. Go to the top-level netCDF directroy; 3. Send me the output from executing the following commands: grep XDRFILE config.status echo $OS uname -a > The same data file when read on a SGI workstation with IDL package > gave lightning response. Glad to hear it (we're doing something right ;-). -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>